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    The Reith Lectures is a series of annual BBC radio lectures given by leading figures of the day. They are commissioned by the BBC and broadcast on Radio...
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    pioneer in his field. The BBC's Reith Lectures were instituted in his honour. Born at Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Reith was the fifth son and the youngest...
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    Reith Lectures, alongside the Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a series entitled Securing Freedom. Eliza Manningham-Buller's lectures...
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    the BBC announced Niall Ferguson was to present its annual Reith Lectures. These four lectures, titled The Rule of Law and its Enemies, examine the role...
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    Grayson Perry's voice From the BBC Reith Lectures, 15 October 2013 Problems playing this file? See media help. Sir Grayson Perry CBE RA Hon FRIBA (born...
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  • 1978 the BBC invited Halsey to present its annual Reith Lectures. Across a series of six radio lectures, titled "Change in British Society" he explored...
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  • delivered five 2017 Reith Lectures on BBC Radio Four, talking about the theme of historical fiction. Her final one of these lectures was on the theme of...
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    the 2009 Reith Lectures on "A New Citizenship" on BBC Radio, addressing the "prospect for a new politics of the common good". The lectures were delivered...
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    Philosophical Society. In 1993, Said presented the BBC's annual Reith Lectures, a six-lecture series titled Representation of the Intellectual, wherein he...
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    Lectures. 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2019. In 2003 he gave the annual BBC Reith Lectures and was the first physician/psychologist to give the lectures since...
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